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Today, a broad coalition of technology
companies, human rights organizations, political groups, and others will take to
the Web and to the streets
to protest mass surveillance. The mobilization, known as "The Day We Fight
Back," honors activist and technologist Aaron
Swartz, who passed away just over a year ago. Throughout the day, the
campaign will encourage individuals to contact their representatives, pressure
their employers, and march for an end to government surveillance practices that
sweep up huge amounts of data, often indiscriminately.

Few cases better underscore the need for digital security
among journalists. On Tuesday, ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou pleaded
guilty to leaking the identity of another CIA operative to Matthew Cole, a
journalist formerly with an ABC News investigative team. In a 2007
interview with ABC, Kiriakou became the first CIA official to confirm that
waterboarding had been used on Al-Qaeda suspects.

A reporter's right to protect confidential sources, a topic
of debate both in the U.S. and internationally, will undergo another round of
legal scrutiny after federal prosecutors formally appealed a decision shielding
journalist James Risen's sources in a CIA leak case.